femur
fe·mur/ˈfimɚ/noun
femur is spelled F-E-M-U-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables (fe·mur). It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, femur means “A thighbone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of femur is femurs or femora.
How many letters and syllables are in femur?
| Letters | 5: F-E-M-U-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: fe·mur |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is femur?
Femur appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce femur?
- UK /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/
- US /ˈfimɚ/
- Australia /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/
Femur has 2 syllables, split fe·mur in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-femur.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with femur?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as femur from its last stressed vowel (/iməɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of femur
- femurs plural
- femora plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does femur mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A thighbone.
- 2
The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
- 3
A segment of the leg of an arachnid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Femur in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense segment of insect’s leg:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does femur come from?
Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).